As usual I spend the last bits of the evening playing a lil’ game before calling it a night. It’s one of my favorite escapes after enduring another day of stupidity in the workplace. I took out my frustrations on Demons begging for bullets. I’m about halfway through the Downtown area but decided to call it a night, motion sickness was starting to set in. That bobbing back and forth gets to me after awhile.
Finally beat my personal record! Also made it to Level 20, apparently only 8% of other players have that achievement – So that makes me a rare falcon I guess. I earned a triple jump power up, allowing me to save up to three jump upgrades for when I REALLY need to get high.
It was fun! Fun enough that I can move along to something else tomorrow… perhaps something a little more hellish.
It’s been a couple months, but I moved the plot along a bit in Control tonight. I started the Prime Candidate Program; only died a few times, and I learned a bit more about Jesse in the process. My next task is finding a way to rotate a large platform, that’s where I decided to call it a night. More photos can be found over at Mastodon.
This is one of those games that doesn’t seem to get much discussion at work whenever we decide to converse about after work activities. It’s mostly Nintendo games and Final Fantasy I usually hear about, maybe a few COD games from a couple of the dudebros. Although I do have one friend that’s really into the Remedy Cinematic Universe, we have a lot of fun talking about Control and other Remedy titles. He was too young to experience Max Payne, but I’ve shown him some vids. Even back in the early 2000’s Remedy knew how to make a bone chilling experience.
Last night I went to play High on Life, and ended up having a Movie Night instead. I purchased a Warp Disc; Warp Discs allow you to teleport other worlds to you. This particular one allows you to visit a movie theatre. Yes, an ACTUAL MOVIE THEATRE.
With a full MST3K style heckling to boot. I wasn’t planning on staying for the whole thing, but I had fun listening to the commentary of Demon Wind. There are also 3 other full movies that can be watched in game, something to save for other nights. I wanted to get back into bounty hunting and finding chests of intergalactic pesos.
Aside from obtaining a few achievements tonight, I also made a new gun friend during my adventures. She has the ability to control time and can fire gems that are as explosive as her attitude. I think I have one more weapon to befriend and I’ll have the full set.
Don’t have much to write about tonight, work was calm today, weather was bleh. I extracted some audio and exported it into SFM, will probably start animation some time next week. It’s a couple minutes worth of audio, which will probably keep me busy for a few weeks. My weekend starts tomorrow and I want to chill a little bit before tearing into any animation. Gotta have a bit of play so I can be in the right mood to work! 😛
Open Thread!
It’s been a little over half a year since I went brawling in Soul Calibur VI, but I managed to knock some of the rust off of my play-style. It took me an eternity to defeat Collossus, but afterwards my battles were either easy or a slight challenge.
On this playthrough I managed to cross paths with Geralt. Unfortunately his Witcher skills were no match for my bitchin’ skills. This session went a little longer than I planned for it to be, but since I haven’t touched the game since July I don’t feel too bad about it. 😛
I’ll make up for it this weekend by getting started on my next animated project! 😀
Snagged some relics tonight, a couple golds and a few sapphires. Some of these are going to be a pain to do if I want to get gold, or even platinum! It’s a good end to a good day, work wasn’t too bad and I even got to go out and have tea with a friend. I had a strawberry matcha milk tea and he had taro milk tea. Also tried some of the potstickers on their new menu, reallly good.
In the meantime I’ve been looking at some gameplay clips from the new Tomb Raider Remaster coming out tomorrow. I might have to see if I can load it onto my Steam Deck before work tomorrow. 🙂 I’ll have an hour to myself at lunch tomorrow and that would be great to play on a handheld.
Made a large amount of progress since last night’s adventures on Steam Deck. I moved along to the living room and played a good few hours on the TV, then eventually on Desktop. Learned a lot of new abilities! I can double jump, glide, dash and deflect… even swim!
But after several hours of adventure, Ori will now be camping in the Misty Woods until I decide to return. I was thinking tomorrow evening of trying to get more relics in Crash Bandicoot Warped, and the next day the Remastered Tomb Raider Trilogy releases! So the next couple days are going to be Playstation vibes! :v
When I wasn’t Bauldering tonight, I did make sure to set some time aside for my Steam Deck and a bit of metroidvania mayhem. It’s been a couple of years since I tried to play Ori and the Blind Forest, but my skills that I’ve picked up from other Metroidvanias helped me get further than my previous attempts. The hardest part for me was always the beginning of the game, so much raw emotion in that first part. Now that it’s on my Steam Deck I’ll have to make an effort to finish it! So far it’s worked with the other Metroidvanias in my collection. I’m only a couple breaths away from finishing a couple other ones I loaded onto my Deck, why not re-start another?